Karen Cleveland: Need to know, 9781524797362:
International edition, 9781524797027 Hardback, Ballantine/ Penguin Random House
US, Pub date: 23. January 2018,
I was lucky to receive a pre publication proof, thank you Penguin Random House, and can guarantee once you start reading “Need to
know”, out in January 23, 2018, this thriller will keep you glued to your seat way past the amount of
reading time you thought you would allow yourself.
This is one of the fastest paced thrillers I
have read in a very long time and the author Karen Cleveland who spent her time
as a CIA analyst, some of them in counterterrorism, certainly knows how to apply
her experience to the novel. A fantastic,
fast paced read from start to finish with an ending I kind of suspected towards the end but the twist is superb! It seems unbelievable that this is her debut
novel.
Film
rights were sold to Universal Pictures for Charlize Theron and rights to the
novel sold in more than 20 markets which is a very strong indicator of the
quality of the book.
Here is
what happens: Vivian Miller works as a career CIA counterintelligence analyst
assigned to uncover Russian sleeper cells in the US. She is also happily
married and the mother of 4 children, juggling parental duties with Matt, her husband
of 10 years. Vivian develops a
program that allows her to filter out possible Russian espionage suspects
who lead a completely normal life within the US. The system also grants her access
to the computer of probable sleepers. One day she logs herself into the computer of
a Russian suspect we later know as Yuri detecting a promising
file. Within the next clicks through the dossier her entire
life falls apart demanding impossible personal and professional choices.
I
realize this reads like a blurb of the book but it would be cruel if I
revealed any more than what is only the very first chapter. Go out and buy the
book once it is published January 23, 2018, you have great suspense ahead of you. 
